Fullwin Liang's New Media Blog

Virtual worlds are places where people can go into virtually to experience many things, sometime things that cannot be experienced in reality. There are many advantages of virtual reality along with some disadvantages. Some advantages would be virtual prototypes such as cars, training programs for military, medical training, therapy and many more. According to an article, "The virtual world moves into the classroom", students are able to learn science related topics such as volcanoes and history topics from significant American history such as the civil war. Marsha Maxwell, the head of educational technology for Atlanta International School stated that virtual reality help students learn with perspective which can improve their learning experience. This can also foster creativity in students because they are allowed to vividly experience what they are learning rather than reading plain text. In addition to this, virtual reality can also help treat many medical problems such a...

A Twitter discussion is very similar to a Blackboard discussion, yet very different. They are both effective ways for one to communicate with another. Twitter discussions would be better than Blackboard discussions because Twitter has more features. Some of these features would be hashtags, retweets, and the ability to @ someone when you want to get their attention. There are much more to explore and do in Twitter than Blackboard. In addition to this, Twitter has a much nicer user interface than Blackboard and a much larger audience. However, the one downside to this is that you are only allowed up to 280 characters per tweet which includes your hashtags. Some may argue that this is good because it keeps the tweets simple and informative at the same time. Blackboard on the other hand is an easy and standard way for the class and professor to communicate with one another. It is usually the way classes would communicate with each other because it is a built in feature that comes with onc...

Four social networking sites I visited are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit. All four of these websites are useful for communicating with people from almost anywhere. They all have features where you can post interesting stories for people to read and comment their thoughts on. Although I never had a Twitter account before this course, I see the benefits of using Twitter now. It is very easy to use and access information you need in a short period of time. For example, I've used Twitter before to check for parking regulations in NYC and also to check on updates if school would be canceled during a snow storm by just looking at a few tweets. On the other hand, Facebook is something I use very often to communicate with my friends and family. You can download Facebook's messenger app in the app store in less than a minute to communicate with anyone easily as long as you have Wifi. In addition to this, there are also group pages where you can network and communicate with peop...

New media has a huge impact on social networking and there are a lot of benefits from social networking. Social networking allows for people to communicate efficiently. In less than one second, anyone is able to receive or send a message to one another. Anyone in society, whether business related or not, are able to connect to people all over the world through social media technologies such as Facebook. According to an article from Chicagotribune.com in 2013, it states that Facebook is, " The world's largest online social network, with more than one billion users."  In addition to this, Facebooks stock price was only 30 dollars. As time passed by, social media and social networking continued to rapidly  grow. In current day, Facebook is still the most used social media website with a stock price of over 190 dollars. You can view messages, photos, videos and even have a live video chat with almost anyone that is far from you in less than one second by using technologies li...

Technology has been advancing the past decades and it is still advancing as I am currently typing up this blog post. Wikis and blogs are both useful platforms where we can gather useful information quickly and efficiently. All it takes is a few seconds and a few clicks on your mouse or phone to obtain these information. Back in the old days, when there wasn't access to internet, people would have to physically travel to the library to research on whatever they are researching. However, in current days, all you would need to do is wiki it online. This is effective because you are obtaining valuable information and it is efficient because it takes less than one second with the help of "CTRL + F" once you are in the wiki page of your needs. You cannot easily use "CTRL + F" to find what you are looking for in a physical encyclopedia. Wiki and blogs are similar in many ways. They both contain an endless amount of useful information for everyone with different needs...

     I decided to work on an analysis of virtual reality (VR) to discover it's positive and negative effects on society because I've always had an interest in virtual reality. Personally, I feel that virtual reality will become one of the core components of new media as it becomes more technologically advanced. Virtual reality as of right now is not perfected yet, so there are a lot of room for this concept of VR to develop into something more advanced than ever. Even as of right now, the power of VR is capable of having many positive impacts on society. Some examples of positive effects would be on business advertisement, communication, education, traveling and experiencing many things virtually without having to be there physically. The list goes on, because there are just so many things to be explored with virtual reality and I plan to get into detail with each of these positive attributes of VR.  However, despite virtual reality being such a beneficial new m...